The president and vice president will each serve one-year terms on the Salisbury Township School Board.
The Salisbury Township School Board re-elected Russell Giordano as president and Tom Mantz as vice president at its Wednesday night meeting. Giordano and Mantz will each serve one-year terms. The one-year terms of Treasurer Brian Bobeck and Secretary Robert Bruchak expire in June.
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Salisbury School Board President Russell Giordano asks board to consider a resolution expressing no confidence in the Pennsylvania Department of Education's leadership.
Salisbury School Board President Russell Giordano, criticizing how charter schools are regulated, called on the board Wednesday to consider drafting a resolution expressing "no confidence" in the Pennsylvania Department of Education's leadership. The department of education "keeps making things harder and harder and harder for us and we should say something about it," Giordano said. Giordano accused the state of gearing up to privatize schools. Giordano criticized the Department of Education for what he says are double standards for charter schools, such as less rigorious standards for the PSSA and different standards to fund their budgets. "People in Salisbury are used to not worrying about the schools, but things are getting beyond our …
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Salisbury School Board President Russell Giordano read a statement outlining his opposition to the Arts Academy Charter School.
Salisbury Township School Board President Russell Giordano read the following statement before he voted against the Arts Academy Charter School at the Feb. 9 school board meeting. "This is my 13th year as of this past December serving on the Salisbury Township School Board. In those 13 years, I have never voted for anything that I believed was not in the best interest of public education in general and this school district, its students and taxpayers, in particular. "Tonight we're being asked to approve a charter to create a new school. We are charged with this decision by the state, not for educational reasons, but for a geographic one. Because the building chosen for this school is within our borders, we must decide on the charter …
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1:40 am on Thursday, June 21, 2012
Salisbury Resident, I believe it's time for you to take the Falcon off your profile and replace it with a crow. more ›
Mark Spengler
12:04 am on Saturday, October 13, 2012
Giordano is right to be concerned. The issue of charter/cyber charter fairness came up at the Deely/Simmons debate last week. Deely asked Simmons directly about the some if the obvious problems and Simmons refused to answer and simply accused Deely of wanting to destroy charters. I guess we couldn't here a good discussion about how flawed the funding formula is, the fact that charter teachers are… more ›